The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It means a huge chunk of bespoke content won't be played much. You need to look for ways to stretch the content inexpensively. Tweak the AI for one so the moment the goblins see you they all leap out of it and rush you. Each time you find a “Geoglyph," you watch a cutscene which shows a sliver of what happened to Zelda.

Cutscenes 81

Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 81

Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I believe that Skyrim is a mix of hand-crafted and procedurally (or at least tools-generated) content, and it could be a pretty fair comparison. Anyway, bottom-line, we’re talking about 150-200 Skyrims of content for all of Aincrad. Cutscenes in an MMO? Worldwide Gated Content. Worse, it can cause VR sickness.

Art 52

Art Games Fighting Technology 52

Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Wider, spread out, less dense.

Open World 52

Open World NPC Cutscenes Terrain 52

Radiator Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Some games do all their cutscene scripting and even enemy AI in Yarn Spinner, because really, it's just a simple scripting language that does whatever you tell it to do. Nothing stops you from adding more commands, functions, markup tags, or new ways to process the script. // custom NPC AI script example?

Scripting 52

Scripting Code Localization Engine 52

Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. All the content in the game was just data in fields. On MOOs and LPMuds, you had a lower barrier for adding features, but you also had a higher barrier for “just making content.”

Sandbox 64

Sandbox Simulation Content Scripting 64

Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Part of what makes them so soulless is their lack of specificity: we aren’t seeing the feelings or aesthetics of any particular human, but rather the almost AI-generation-like amalgamation of what the marketing department thinks others will like.

Fantasy 52

Fantasy AAA Concepts Cutscenes 52

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. Wisely, the game doesn't really explain invasion conditions, and the uncertainty is a lot more interesting (until it isn't). Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. TUTORIAL The tutorial happens across 3 in-game loops.

Fighting 52

Fighting NPC Puzzle AI 52